Sentences with phrase «isolationist political»

On stage, He couldn't help pointing out that the U.S. and Britain were struggling with isolationist political movements at home.

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No Lutheran pastor in my childhood ever made — whether in or out of the pulpit — a public political comment (though it was generally assumed that most of them, if they voted at all, voted Republican), and while we occasionally talked politics at home (my father was a Robert Taft isolationist Republican), the true family passion was religion.

It is neither Christian nor American to inhibit the orderly, legal migration of people into this country based solely on the political expediency of isolationist mentalities.

That is not necessarily because Americans are in a reactive or isolationist mood - although many certainly are - but because they are disillusioned with political schemes and schemers.

Though the New Deal was itself certainly of major importance to the political formation of what has come to be known as the organized Jewish community, for many if not most Jews Roosevelt's greatness lay not so much in the fact that he was a liberal in opposition to conservatives as it did in the fact that in the face of Nazi Germany he was an interventionist in firm and successful opposition to the isolationists.

Dahl would soon be caught up in a complex web of deception masterminded by William Stephenson, aka Intrepid, Churchill's legendary spy chief, who, with President Roosevelt's tacit permission, mounted a secret campaign of propaganda and political subversion to weaken American isolationist forces, bring the country into the war against Germany, and influence U.S. policy in favor of England.

Begun in 1948, Motherwell's Elegies were intended as public laments, deeply political in their condemnation of the violence of the Spanish Civil War and the isolationist fascism of General Francisco Franco.

At a time when global political agendas are becoming more aggressively isolationist and violent, the need for an equally brutal artistic assessment of these situations seems all the more urgent.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's letter to investors in the company's IPO filing, had a somewhat political lean — it spoke of a global worldview — something that stands in contrast to the current isolationist climate — where «artists cross genres and cultural boundaries, creating ideas that propel society forward» and where «we're all part of a global network, building new connections, sharing new ideas, across cultures.»